Package-carrier



(No Model.) 7

S. W. BABBITT.

PACKAGE CARRIER. I .7 Patented Sept. 4, 1894,

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

SETH WILLIAM BABBITT, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO H. J. IVES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PACKAGE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 525,577, dated September 4, 1894.

Application filed June 23, 1894-.- Serial No. 515,451. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SETH WILLIAM BABBITT, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Package-Carriers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a view-in side elevation of a package carrier constructed in accordance with my invention, and shown with its hooks in their retired positions. Fig. 2, a view of the devicepartly in section, and with its hooks in their projected or operating positions; Fig. 3, a view of the device in transverse section on the line a-b of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a view partly in elevation and partly in section of one of the modified forms which the device may assume; Fig. 5, a view in transverse section on the line c-d of Fig. 4.

My invention relates to an improvement in package or bundle-carriers, the object being to produce at a low cost for manufacture, a simple and convenient article, the cord-hooks of which may be retired out of the way when not in use.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a packagecarrier comprising a chambered hand-piece, and two hooks located at the ends thereof, and adapted to be retired when not in use, into the saidhand-piece, and in certain other details of construction as will be hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, the hand-piece of the device consists of two corresponding members A A, formed of wood, and secured together by transverse pins B B, so as to form a hand-piece of circular cross-section, having very slightly tapering ends. The inner faces of the said sections are recessed or cut away to form a long longitudinal chamber A in each end of the handpiece, for the reception of the retaining springs C of the cord-hooks C. The said springs are adapted to engage with the opposite walls of the chambers with sufiicient force to make their movement in the chambers attended with friction. These springs are of loop form and pass around the pins B, whereby the springs, and hence the cord-hooks are connected with the ends of the hand piece. The said cord-hooks are pivotally connected with the outer ends of the springs, and each hook is provided with a small operating-finger C. When the hooks are retired, these operati ng-fingers project very slightly beyond the ends of the hand-piece, as shown in Fig.

1, and are engaged by the fingers for pulling the hooks out for use, as shown in Fig. 2. After the article has been used, it is designed that its hooks shall be retired, as shown in 6 Fig. 1, when the article may be carried in the pocket without inconvenience, and Without danger of injury to itself.

In the modified construction shown by Figs.

4 and 5 of the drawings, the hand-piece D is made solid, and provided at its ends with corresponding longitudinal slots D D, adapted in length and depth to receive the cord-hooks E E, which are pivoted in the outer ends of the said slots, upon pins E E. Each hook is provided at its base with an operating-finger E constructed and adapted so that when the hook is in its retired position in its chamber, the operating finger will project beyond the end of the hand-piece as shown, to the left in Fig. 4, so that the hook may be engaged for throwing it into its open position, as shown at the right of the same figure.

It is obvious that the device may assume still other forms, and I would therefore have 8 5 it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I 1. In a package-carrier, the combination with a chambered hand-piece, of two cord- 5 hooks pivotally mounted in the ends thereof, and adapted to be retired thereinto, and each furnished with an operating-finger in addition to the hook proper for throwing it into its open or projected position, substantially as described.

2. In a package-earner, the combination with a. longitudinally chambered hand-piece, of two springs located within the ends of the same, and longitudinally movable under friction, and cord-hooks pivotally connected with V the outer ends of the springs, and adapted to be retired into the chambered hand-piece by the inward movement therein of the said springs.

SETH 'WILLIAM BABBITT.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. HILL, CARL F. SORG. 

